HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing

Bibliographic Resources

A list of bibliographic resources for scholars and public interested in the study of healing, spiritual trance, and religious experience. The list is continuously updated, we welcome further suggestions for entries through the contact link. Multiple languages are accepted.

Best M, Butow P, Olver I. (2016) Doctors discussing religion and spirituality: A systematic literature review. Palliat Med. 30(4): 327-37.
Bonelli RM, Koenig HG. (2013). Mental disorders, religion and spirituality 1990 to 2010: A systematic evidence-based review. J Relig Health 52(2): 657-73.
Ehman JW, Ott BB, Short TH, Ciampa RC, Hansen-Flaschen J. (1999). Do patients want physicians to inquire about their spiritual or religious beliefs if they become gravely ill? Arch Intern Med. 159(15): 1803-6.
Freitas, M.H. (2020). Religiosity, spirituality and wellbeing in the perception of Brazilian health and mental health professionals, in B.E. Schmidt & J. Leonardi, eds, Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience and health, Sheffield: Equinox, pp.199-224.
Freitas, M.H., C.C. Fukuda, V.P. Alves & L. Gomes (2018). Religiosity attitude in the face of death in Brazilian elderly. In R. Pande & T. Van der Weide, eds, Handbook of research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gernder and Aging, Hershey: IGI, pp. 53—68.
Freitas, M. H., G.j. Paiva & C.C. Moraes (2013). Psychology of religion in the contemporary Western world: Challenges for interdisciplinarity, Vol. I, Brasília: Universa.
Freitas, M.H. & B.R. dos Santos (2017). Religiosity and mental health among the immigrants in Brasília, International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 13(2): 207–219.
Garcia, A. & M.H. Freitas (2016). Fostering International Friendships: Organizations and Initiatives, from UN to Universities and Churches. In A. Gracia, ed., International Friendships: The Interpersonal Basis of a Worldwide Community, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.108-123.
King MB, Koenig HG. (2009). Conceptualising spirituality for medical research and health service provision. BMC Health Serv Res. 9: 116.
Koenig HG, Idler E, Kasl S, Hays JC, George LK, Musick M, Larson DB, Collins TR, Benson H. (1999) Religion, spirituality, and medicine: a rebuttal to skeptics. Int J Psychiatry Med. 29(2): 123-31.
Lukoff D, Lu F, Turner R. (1992) Toward a more culturally sensitive DSM-IV: Psychoreligious and psychospiritual problems. J Nerv Ment Dis. 180(11): 673-82.
Moreira-Almeida A. (2007). Espiritualidade e saúde: passado e futuro de uma relação controversa e desafiadora [editorial]. Rev Psiquiatr Clin. 34(suppl1):3-4.
Moreira-Almeida A, Sharma A, Rensburg B, Verhagen P, Cook C. (2016). WPA Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry. World Psychiatry 15(1): 87-8.
Pargament K, Lomax J. (2013). Understanding and addressing religion among people with mental illness. World Psychiatry 12(1): 26-32.
Royal College of Psychiatric. (1999). Spirituality and psychiatry special interest group. RCPSYCH.
American Psychiatric Association (1990). Guidelines regarding possible conflict between psychiatrists’ religious commitments and psychiatric practice. Am J Psychiatry 147(4): 542.
Cordeiro Q. (2014) Creation of the section on spirituality and mental health at the Brazilian Psychiatric Association. Psyche Spirit 3(1): 2-3.
Turner RP, Lukoff D, Barnhouse RT, Lu FG. (1995). Religious or spiritual problem. A culturally sensitive diagnostic category in the DSM-IV. J Nerv Ment Dis. 183 (7): 435-44.
Teixeira MZ, Lin CA, Martins MA. (2004). O ensino de práticas não-convencionais em saúde nas faculdades de medicina: Panorama mundial e perspectivas brasileiras. Rev Bras Educ Med. 28(1): 51-60.
Sulmasy DB. (2002). A biopsychosocial-spiritual model for the care of patients at the end of life. Gerontologist 42(Spec 3): 24-33.
Puchalski CM. (2007) Spirituality and the care of patients at the end-of-life: an essential component of care. Omega (Westport) 56(1): 33-46.
Verhagen PJ. (2010). The case for more effective relationships between psychiatry, religion and spirituality. Curr Opin Psychiatry 23(6): 550-5.
Woll ML, Hinshaw DB, Pawlik TM. (2008). Spirituality and religion in the care of surgical oncology patients with life-threatening or advanced illnesses. Ann Surg Oncol. 15(11): 3048-57.